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Since the founding of Israel in 1948, the nation has
relied on its intelligence community and armed services to defend
against those who would do it harm. And in Rise and Kill First: The
Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations, veteran
journalist Ronen Bergman — “arguably Israel’s best investigative
reporter,” in the words of David Remnick — pulls back the curtain
on the country’s most effective secret weapon. Hear gripping
accounts of the dangerous missions undertaken by the Mossad, Shin
Bet and the IDF to root out Israel’s enemies before they could
attack the Jewish state. And explore the thorny ethical questions
that Israeli forces have grappled with as they protected their
homeland. Recorded on January 30th, 2018 at 92nd Street Y.
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Overview of the Book

Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's
Targeted Assassinations by Ronen Bergman

The first definitive history of the Mossad, Shin Bet,
and the IDF’s targeted killing programs, from the man hailed by
David Remnick as “arguably [Israel’s] best investigative
reporter”

The Talmud says: “If someone comes to kill you, rise up
and kill him first.” This instinct to take every measure, even the
most aggressive, to defend the Jewish people is hardwired into
Israel’s DNA. From the very beginning of its statehood in 1948,
protecting the nation from harm has been the responsibility of its
intelligence community and armed services, and there is one weapon
in their vast arsenal that they have relied upon to thwart the most
serious threats: Targeted assassinations have been used countless
times, on enemies large and small, sometimes in response to attacks
against the Israeli people and sometimes preemptively. In this
page-turning, eye-opening book, journalist and military analyst
Ronen Bergman offers a riveting inside account of the targeted
killing programs—their successes, their failures, and the moral and
political price exacted on the men and women who approved and
carried out the missions.

Bergman has gained the exceedingly rare cooperation of
many current and former members of the Israeli government,
including Prime Ministers Shimon Peres, Ehud Barak, Ariel Sharon,
and Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as high-level figures in the
country’s military and intelligence services: the IDF (Israel
Defense Forces), the Mossad (the world’s most feared intelligence
agency), Caesarea (a “Mossad within the Mossad” that carries out
attacks on the highest-value targets), and the Shin Bet (an
internal security service that implemented the largest targeted
assassination campaign ever, in order to stop what had once
appeared to be unstoppable: suicide terrorism).

Including never-before-reported, behind-the-curtain
accounts of key operations, and based on hundreds of on-the-record
interviews and thousands of files to which Bergman has gotten
exclusive access over his decades of reporting, Rise and
Kill First brings us deep into the heart of Israel’s most
secret activities. Bergman traces, from statehood to the present,
the gripping events and thorny ethical questions underlying
Israel’s targeted killing campaign, which has shaped the Israeli
nation, the Middle East, and the entire world.

“This is an astonishing book on targeted assassination
in the name of the state. Tremendous reporting and writing
make Rise and Kill First the definitive work on
a secret and ceaseless war.”—Tim Weiner, Pulitzer
Prize–winning journalist and author of Legacy of Ashes:
The History of the CIA

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